From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 11:12:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A29016A4CE for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 11:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA8443D31 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 11:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from ukug.uk.freebsd.org (parish.gotadsl.co.uk [62.3.235.43]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B65124DD4E; Fri, 7 May 2004 19:12:06 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <409BD183.50707@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:12:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0 (Windows/20040428) X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Silverstrim , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200405071712.i47HCEp10601@akiva.homer.att.com> <409BC9FF.1030301@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> <828AC69D-A050-11D8-8CAE-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <828AC69D-A050-11D8-8CAE-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ntfs mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 18:12:10 -0000 Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: > >> J. W. Ballantine wrote: >>> It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came >>> pre-installed from the factory. >> >> I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. >> > > Not always. I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's ordered just > for the purpose of installing FreeBSD on them for some of our server > use...you can specify *no operating system* and they ship you the > system and rails with nothing but the hard drives configured for RAID > on the PERC controller. No fuss, no muss :-) > That's good to know :-) Does it only apply to servers, or can you get desktop machines /sans/ OS? Regards, Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > . >